but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.

As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.

So he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed.

So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.

Now some Sadducees (who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

So Jesus said to them, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said,

Then Satan entered Judas, the one called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve.

He went away from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed,

Then they said, “Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”

Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no basis for an accusation against this man.”

(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.)

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

While they were talking and debating these things, Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them